Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Crime Alert 07.12.23
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime needs now. Andrew
- 0:03Speaker 1: Beard and fiance Holly Elkins plot to quote get rid
- 0:07Speaker 1: of Alisa Brikett, the mother of Beard's child. Elkins helps
- 0:12Speaker 1: Beard purchase a zan and makeup to disguise himself for
- 0:15Speaker 1: a planned attack on Alyssa. Elkins watches Beard's son while
- 0:20Speaker 1: Beard drive to Alyssa's workplace and waits till she gets
- 0:23Speaker 1: in her car. Beard shoots Elisa Brikette in the head
- 0:27Speaker 1: and stabs her dead.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Nancy. Two weeks prior to the murder, Elkins purchased a
- 0:32Speaker 2: GPS tracker for Beard to place on Burkette's car, and
- 0:35Speaker 2: later planted drugs and a gun with no serial number
- 0:38Speaker 2: in Burkett's trunk. Beard then called police and falsely reported
- 0:41Speaker 2: Burkett was selling drugs. Beard claimed he was home with
- 0:44Speaker 2: Elkins at the time of the attack, but eventually confessed
- 0:47Speaker 2: to all of these crimes.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Beard, thirty six, gets forty three years behind bars. Elkins
- 0:53Speaker 1: thirty two, now facing charges of conspiracy to stalk, stalking
- 0:57Speaker 1: with a dangerous weapon resulting in death. Delaware cops pull
- 1:01Speaker 1: over Jamal Wing for speeding. He gets out of the
- 1:04Speaker 1: car despite officers order to stay put. One officer brings
- 1:07Speaker 1: out a police dog to encourage Wing to cooperate, but
- 1:10Speaker 1: instead Wing attacks the dog, biting the dog multiple times
- 1:15Speaker 1: and finding officer attempts to intervene. Wing finally subdued. Charged
- 1:19Speaker 1: with assaulting an officer, assault on law enforcement animal, du
- 1:23Speaker 1: resisting with violence, mischief, and DC disorderly conduct. More crime
- 1:28Speaker 1: and justice news after this Now with the latest crime
- 1:33Speaker 1: and justice breaking news. Crime allized John Limley.
- 1:35Speaker 3: We began in New York where a Brooklyn man has
- 1:38Speaker 3: been charged with murder and attempted murder after allegedly shooting
- 1:42Speaker 3: and killing an elderly man and wounding three other men
- 1:46Speaker 3: while riding a scooter in New York City. With the
- 1:48Speaker 3: latest here is Sidney Sumner with Crime Online.
- 1:51Speaker 2: According to police, there were a total of six seemingly
- 1:54Speaker 2: random shootings in both Brooklyn and Queens. Twenty five year
- 1:57Speaker 2: old Thomas Abrew has been identified as the alleged shooter,
- 2:00Speaker 2: although his motive is still unclear. A Brew was apprehended
- 2:03Speaker 2: by police without incident. Authorities say that after the first
- 2:07Speaker 2: gun shot, the New York Police Department sent officers a
- 2:09Speaker 2: photo of the shooter for use in identifying the suspect,
- 2:12Speaker 2: the officers found him a few hours later. Police seized
- 2:15Speaker 2: a scooter in a nine millimeter handgun with an extended magazine.
- 2:19Speaker 2: A Brew now stands accused of murder, two charges of
- 2:22Speaker 2: attempted murder, in six counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
- 2:25Speaker 2: The shootings began in Brooklyn shortly after eleven a m
- 2:28Speaker 2: on Sunday. That's when a twenty one year old man
- 2:30Speaker 2: was shot in the shoulder. According to authorities, the man
- 2:33Speaker 2: was taken to a hospital and was expected to survive.
- 2:36Speaker 2: Shortly thereafter, in the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Queens, a
- 2:39Speaker 2: Brew is said to have shot an eighty six year
- 2:41Speaker 2: old man, who later died in a hospital.
- 2:43Speaker 3: In all, police say there were six total shootings, with
- 2:46Speaker 3: two additional victims, both taken to area hospitals. One man
- 2:50Speaker 3: was in critical condition, the other stable. Law enforcement from local, state,
- 2:55Speaker 3: and federal agencies or on the lookout for a quote
- 2:58Speaker 3: very dangerous prison who used bedsheets to escape from a
- 3:02Speaker 3: jail in northwest Pennsylvania. According to authorities, thirty four year
- 3:06Speaker 3: old Michael Burnham escaped from a war in jail by
- 3:09Speaker 3: scaling exercise equipment and using bed linens to climb down
- 3:13Speaker 3: from a window. Lieutenant Colonel George Bivins of the Pennsylvania
- 3:17Speaker 3: State Police says that Burnham is charged with kidnapping, burglary,
- 3:21Speaker 3: and other offenses. Warren Police say that he is also
- 3:24Speaker 3: a suspect and a homicide investigation. And Oklahoma judge has
- 3:29Speaker 3: dismissed a lawsuit seeking compensation for the nineteen twenty one
- 3:33Speaker 3: Tulsa race massacre, putting an end to survivor's attempts to
- 3:37Speaker 3: receive some form of legal justice. Once again, crime Online
- 3:41Speaker 3: Sydney Sumner.
- 3:42Speaker 2: The lawsuit seeking compensation for the devastation of the wance,
- 3:45Speaker 2: vibrant black neighborhood known as Greenwood, was dismissed with prejudice
- 3:49Speaker 2: by Judge Caroline Wall. The ruling relates to a lawsuit
- 3:52Speaker 2: brought by three attack survivors, all over one hundred years old,
- 3:55Speaker 2: who sued in twenty twenty in the hopes of obtaining
- 3:58Speaker 2: what their lawyer called justice in their life lifetime. The
- 4:01Speaker 2: full court ruling has not yet been sent to the city.
- 4:03Speaker 2: This according to Tulsa Mayor G. T. Binnam. The mayor
- 4:06Speaker 2: declared that the city quote remains committed to finding the
- 4:09Speaker 2: graves of nineteen twenty one Tulsa Race massacre victims, encouraging
- 4:13Speaker 2: economic investment in the Greenwood District, educating future generations about
- 4:17Speaker 2: the worst event in our community's history, and building a
- 4:20Speaker 2: city where every person has an equal opportunity for a
- 4:22Speaker 2: great life.
- 4:23Speaker 3: The Sirviber's attorney has not said whether his clients plan
- 4:27Speaker 3: to appeal. However, a group backing the lawsuit claimed they
- 4:30Speaker 3: will probably appeal Wall's decision.
- 4:33Speaker 1: Kaylena Turner's behavior becomes erratic after a medication change. Turner,
- 4:39Speaker 1: diagnosed with PTSD, gets prescribed to higher dose, but then
- 4:43Speaker 1: tells her parents she hasn't slept for days. Kaylena heads
- 4:47Speaker 1: to Austin to visit a friend, but doesn't know the way.
- 4:50Speaker 1: Thinking she's arrived at Austin, she stops in a Houston
- 4:53Speaker 1: suburb and knocks on doors looking for her friend's home,
- 4:57Speaker 1: eventually parking in a stranger's driveway and fall and sleep
- 5:00Speaker 1: in her car. The homeowner calls cops. When officers check
- 5:03Speaker 1: on her, she locks the car door, The officer breaks
- 5:07Speaker 1: the window, and that's when Turner drives off. When please
- 5:10Speaker 1: find her car again, Track show, Kaylena Turner ran into
- 5:15Speaker 1: the woods Barefoot. She's now been missing four months. If
- 5:20Speaker 1: you know anything about Kaylena Turner's whereabouts, please contact Harris
- 5:25Speaker 1: County Sheriff's seven point three seven five five seven four
- 5:29Speaker 1: two seven. For the latest crime injustice news, go to
- 5:32Speaker 1: crimeonline dot com with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grays.